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"Anyway, as usual, they calledto savewith their animal will miraculously disappear They were in a surly mood Drink does that to soles to turn on his side so he can seehelplessly at the ceiling

"When did this happen?"

"Two days ago I was summoned because their favorite horse, Devil--"

"Devil? You’re kidding, right? The Bishop brothers have a horse nah

"Yeah I was called because Devil had colic"

"Just a as stove, pu pan, and put it on to heat

"What were you doing?" he asks when I get back For the first tis and prints on the white plaster walls: race horses, farinal, soraph of Hester as a young on and two horses The horses are wearing gaswater for a bath"

The vet smiles his first smile of the day, his half-crooked one "I smell pretty bad, huh?"

I nod "You reek"

The only ti sianizing the miners at Matewan He hadn’t bathed for a week and had had only one set of clothes with hi Fork

"Three thousand h they knew it could cost them," he told me after I’d washed his back and hair and otiating an agreement with the mine owners, they’d lose their jobs

"And that’s what happened The Stone Mountain Coal Cos Women and children were actually thrown out of their coht in the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, those goons frouns, but the miners had rifles and pistols and were ready for theanized A gunfight erupted on Main Street It wasn’t clear who fired the first shot, Sheriff Hatfield or one of the Felts brothers, but ten men died It was senseless"